Monday, February 2, 2009

After a bit of time off to get my son to settle in to school, it's back to full time work today. Oh how I was enjoying pretending to be a stay at home mum! Back to reality today, and it was totally full on, but I felt needed and useful, so that's good.

Anyways, on to my latest obsession. Text and fonts. I think I've been reading too many Scandanavian blogs. If you are a fan of these blogs too then you too will have noticed that a lot of the 'Scandanavian white blogs' as I call them (and there are many) seem to feature writing in some form. For instance yesterday I was reading about a very interesting lady, creator of Emmelines blog, who turned a plain janeIkea shoe cupboard into a one of a kind piece by painting it white and putting the words to 'These boots are made for walking' on the front of the drawers. Cute! See it here. She used Scriptina font (see, that's how bad I'm getting, I can even identify the names of fonts now).

All around me I seem to see examples of the most exquisite, old-style text (this first one looks a little like Cezanne font to me...)

Catherine, your blog is a daily pick me up- I love your style! The Ikea cupboard idea is fantastic- I have a lot of Ikea furniture we bought when we moved overseas and I’ve been looking for a way to make them one-of-a-kind. Thanks for this post!

Love this post. I have been so busy at work that I was behind on my reading. So I was so happy to get into bed tonight and catch up on your blog. Great posts. I need to take another read to really soak it all in.

Hi Catherine. I am also addicted to typography (something to do with being an editor perhaps?), so I really enjoyed this post. I also got a kick out of visiting the Norwegian blog you mentioned; not only is it beautiful, but the automatic translation into English was most amusing!

Oh me too Catherine!!!Words, letters, fonts and I am blessed as i get to use them most days in my charms so I am lucky...but aren't the old metal letters you see on the european blogs just something to drool over, especially the white washed or metal ones!!!!! c xx

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When I was 14 I swapped to a smaller bedroom because I fell in love with a magazine article about small bedroom style....and so begun a lifelong passion for interior decorating. I live in Adelaide, Australia with my young son and I pour my creative energy into my home. I have a love for all things pure and simple, natural and textured...think white, wood, seashells and cane. I want to share the things I love with fellow lovers of pure and simple decor style